Media theorist, professor, and graphic novelist Douglas Rushkoff has been in love with the internet since its cyberpunk beginnings. He has made several documentaries and written more than a dozen bestselling books about media, technology, and culture – his new book is Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity.

Rushkoff is Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics at CUNY/Queens in New York and In 2013 was named by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as the sixth most influential thinker in the world.